LEGL 020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Damages, Tortious Interference
31 May 2017
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Criminal = if convicted, the defendant is guilty. Civil = if convicted, the defendant is liable. Appellate courts are not finders of facts, the appellant is saying that the judge below did something wrong in the matter of law. Sometimes, appellate courts do look at facts and if they are wrong they send it back to the previous judge asking him to reconsider it. Torts are defined as civil (non-criminal) wrongs, but breaching a contract used to be considered a tort. Tortious interference of contract: interfering into a contract. Contracts are identified for the letter k . K: legally enforceable agreements the law stands ready to enforce with a legal remedy if the contract is not honored by a party unless there is an excuse for non-performance. And most of the time the contract is not reinforced. When building a contract you make law between you and the other party instead of looking at the constitution/precedent.
